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No. 563,668. Patented July '7, 1896.

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ATTORNEYS.

UNITED STATES PATENT rricn.

MAX LESSER, OF BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS, ASSIGNOR, BY MESNE ASSIGK- MENTS, OF ONE-HALF T O HENRY HOTTINGER, OF CINCINNATI, OHIO.

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SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 563,668, dated July 7, 1896. Application filed June 28,1895. Serial No. 554,838. (No model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern: The leaf a is designed to be maintained on Be it known that I, MAX LESSER, of Boston, a level plane with the portion a or to swing in the county of Suifolk and State of Massadown at right angles thereto. To maintain chusetts, have invented new and useful Imit on a level plane with the portion a, I may 55 provements in Tables, of which the following employ a keeper or bar a movable in a slideis a full, clear, and exact description. way c secured to the under side of the leaf This invention relates more particularly to a, and adapted to extend and bear against tables for the use or convenience of invalids, the fixed portion a, as plainly shown in Fig. the object being to provide a simple and du- 3. When it is desired to lower the leaf a, the 6o rable table designed to be attached to a bedkeeper a may be drawn out of engagement stead or other suitable support convenient to with the portion a. an invalid or sick person, and so constructed As a means to secure the leaves a or c at that it may be readily adjusted and changed any desired angular adjustment with relation to make it serviceable for a dining-table, a to the part to which they are hinged, I em 65 table upon which games may be played, or ploy braces, each comprising curved sections for a reading or writin g table. a a secured at one end to the respective The invention consists in the construction parts, as. plainly indicated in the drawings. and novel arrangement of parts, as will be One section, cf, has a socket a at its end, hereinafter set forth, and more particularly through which the section a is movable, and 70 2c pointed out in the appended claims. a thumb-screw a, extended through a tapped Reference is to be had to the accompanying hole in the wall of the socket and adapted to drawings, formingapart of this specification, impinge against the other section, serves to in which similar characters of reference indilock the parts as adjusted. cate corresponding parts in all the views. To the edge of one or more of the leaves I 75 Figure 1 is a perspective view of a table attach a book-stop a consisting of any suitembodying my invention and showing it as able material, such, for instance, as a thin attached to a bedstead. Fig. 2 is a perspecstrip of metal, and for obvious reasons I pretive view showing the table as attached to a fer to make the stop movable with relation to portable or movable base. Fig. 3 is a bottom the partto which it is attached, so that it may 80 plan view of the table. Fig. 4: is an edge be moved to a position with its upper edge view thereof, showing the several sections of projected above the top of the part to which the top extended in one horizontal plane. it is attached, and so that it may be moved Fig. 5 is a front view of a clamping device with its upper edge below or on a plane with employed. Fig. 6 is an edge view thereof. the top surface. IVith this end in view I 8 Fig. 7 is a detail view, on an enlarged scale, of provide the stop with a series of transverse a book-stop employed; and Fig. 8 is a detail slots 0,, through which screws 0, or the like view, on an enlarged scale, showing a locking extend into the wood of the leaf. device employed. A yoke 13 is attached to the under side of Referring by reference-characters to the the fixed portion a of the table-top, and this 90 4o drawings, A designates the table-top, comyoke is provided with a socket 1), into which prising what maybe termed the fixed porthe upper end of a tubular standard or rod tion or bed a and anumber of hinged leaves. B is extended. The socket 12 engages loosely I have here shown five hinged leaves a, a on the standard B", so that the table-top A and a but it is to be understood that there may be rotated on said standard, and as a 5 5 may be a greater or less number without de means to secure the table at a desired rotary parting from the spirit of my invention. adjustment I employ a locking device, here The leaf to is hinged to one side edge of the shown as a spring-impelled pin b, movable portion a, the leaves of are hinged, respec' in a housing 12 on the socket b and adapted tively, to the ends of the leaf a, and the leaves to engage its end into one of an annular row :00 a are respectively hinged to the ends of the of holes 17 in the standard 13. T o relieve the portion a. pin 19 from the weight of the table A and to provide a base upon which the end of the socket b may rest and rotate, I may employ a screw-clamped collar b? on the standard B.

O is a sleeve through which the standard B is vertically movable and adjustable. This has means for clamping it to the side rail 03 of abedstead, consisting, as here shown, of oppositely-extended arms 0, each having movable, through a hole in its end, a bolt having a hook end 0 adapted to engage the in nor upper surface of the rail 00. The body portion of each bolt 0 is screw-threaded, and a clamping-nut c is engaged thereon and bears against the outer side of the arm 0. A vertically-operating screw 0 is engaged in an arm extended from a collar 0, adjustable on the sleeve 0, and held as adjusted by means of a set-screw a. To prevent, the clamping device from scratching or defacing the rail 00, I provide the inner faces of the arms a with buffers 0 of rubber or similar material, and the upper end of the screw 0 with a similar buffer 0 seated in a cup-shaped receptacle on the screw.

To secure anydesired vertical adjustment of the standard B with relation to the sleeve O, a screw-clamped collar 0 is adjustably mounted on the standard and designed to rest on the upper end of the sleeve, and to prevent a rotary movement of the standard with relation to the sleeve the collar 0 is provided with a lug c", adapted to enter a notch 0 in the upper end of the sleeve.

When it is desired to use the device as a portable table or table movable about the room as an ordinary table, the sleeve C may be removed from the standard and the said standard inserted in a socket formed in a base 0 which may be of any desired ornamental design and provided with rollers.

It will be seen that I have provided a strong and serviceable table, capable of several adjustments to adapt it'for many uses.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent- 1. Atable, comprising a top having hinged sections, a standard on which the top may rotate, a sleeve, in which the standard is vertically adjustable, oppositely-extended arms on the sleeve, clamping devices carried by the arms, and comprising threaded bolts and clamping-nuts, a vertically-operating clamping-screw and a collar adjustable on the sleeve and carried by the screw, substantially as specified. V

2. The combination, with the table-stand.- ard, of the sleeve in which the standard is adjustable, arms on said sleeve, clamping devices carried by the arms, butters carried by the arms, a clamping-screw, a collar supporting said screw and adjustable on the sleeve relatively to the arms extended from the sleeve, and a buffer on the end of said screw. substantially as specified.

MAX LESSER.

lVitnesses:

E. A. BANGS, JOHN E. PINKHAM. 

